Lee has an especially engaging screen presence, and some of the most memorable moments of the film are in the scenes he shares with Hewitt.
As for the guys, Liotta gives a sharp performance as Dean, a guy with a hard edge and a soft spot for Angela, and Lee does a notable turn as Jack, a regular guy who finds himself in the eye of Angela and Page's storm. Together, their antics on screen are reminiscent of Lemmon and Curtis in `Some Like It Hot,' or Caine and Martin in `Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.' There's a refreshing lack of pretentiousness about them that really makes them fun to watch. And not to be outdone by her co-star, Hewitt stays right there with her, by giving a performance that makes you believe that this is a young woman who could actually pull this stuff off. Weaver plays it to the hilts, saucy, seductive and sharp as a tack. Looks aside, however, what really makes it cook is their shared if-you-see-me-comin'-better-step-aside, take-no-prisoners attitude, a Mae West meets Kate Hepburn persona that gives their con its zing. As far as the women, such a pair of femmes fatales you've never seen Hewitt has it and flaunts it, but she's still overshadowed by the gorgeous Weaver. For what the movie lacks in originality is made up for with the performances of the aforementioned four. An amusing, and at times hilarious comedy, the fact that it works as well as it does can be attributed to two things, by category: Weaver and Hewitt and Ray Liotta and Jason Lee. Only this time, it has to be one rich beyond their wildest dreams. At that point, what's a girl to do, but find another mark. But as fate, luck, chance or what-have-you would have it, at that moment the IRA steps in and not only wipes out their bank account, but hands them a bill for back taxes that far and away exceeds the amount already confiscated. Then Page (Hewitt), much to the chagrin of her mother, Angela (Weaver), decides it's time to strike out on her own and take down a score for herself. For the women, it's like having the goose that laid the golden egg, and all is going well the bucks are rolling in and Cupid's path is being littered in their wake with the carnage of the men they've despoiled. Yes, the con is on, as mom takes em to the altar, daughter seduces em (getting caught in the act by mom, of course), and mom settles for a divorce and some big bucks.
Neeson has signed on to play the monster while Jones will play the dying mother and Weaver is on board as the grandmother.īayona’s previous film was the Oscar-nominated The Impossible.Ī Monster Calls is slated for release on October 14, 2016.A movie that proves that what you see is not necessarily what you get, as a mother/daughter team con one well-heeled member of the opposite sex after another, in `Heartbreakers,' directed by David Mirkin and starring Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt. In between the stories, we learn that the boy’s mother is undergoing chemotherapy and that the boy is being tormented by bullies at school. In Ness’ story, a 13-year-old boy is visited every night at 12:07 by a tree monster who tells him stories. But in A Monster Calls, Weaver will be involved in a battle against a monster of a very different sort: terminal illness.Īccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Weaver has signed on to star opposite Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson in Juan Antonio Bayona’s big screen version of Patrick Ness’ children’s fantasy novel, which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Greenaway Medal in 2012. With four Alien movies under her belt, Sigourney Weaver has more experience fighting monsters than just about anyone.
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